Whee!! It’s another exciting feature at the Maya Kitchen’s Culinary Elite Series! For tomorrow’s event, it’ll be Chef Claude Tayag who will be cooking his famous Kapampangan dishes to us!! I cannot wait!!
Below is the press release from the Maya Kitchen about Chef Claude Tayag. I will share my experience soon just like how I did with the previous Culinary Elite Series at the Maya Kitchen… Sooooo Excited!
“From a Kapampangan Palate to an Artist’s Palette: An Update on 4 Pampango Dishes,” is the title of Claude Tayag’s cooking demonstration for The Maya Kitchen’s Elite Culinary Series on September 26, Saturday, 9am-1pm.
The well-known artist, author and chef will demonstrate Green Papaya Lumpiang Sariwa, a warm salad. Sisig Terrine, the iconic Pampango sizzling sisig goes back to its roots. The crunchy boiled pig’s sear is served cold, with its symphony of sour, salty, sweet, tangyand spicy flavors. Bringhe, a Pampango/Bulacaño fiesta rice dish (aka Valenciana in Iloilo). Is it a paella or risotto? Chef Claude calls it a ricepizza. Pistu, a Pampango special occasion morning dish, an over-the-top giniling na baboy/picadillo.
Tayag is an advocate of Filipino cuisine most of his adultlife. His best-selling books include FOOD TOUR, a collection of his food and travel essays from his column in the PhilippineStar, and LINAMNAM – Eating One’s Way Around the Philippines, which he co-authored with his wife Mary Ann Quioc. Both won the Best Philippine Culinary Travel Guide in the Madrid-based GOURMANDWORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS 2007 and 2011, respectively. He is also a co-author and the food stylist of the seminal cookbook KULINARYA – A Guidebook to Philippine Cuisine.
Tayag is one of those rare breed of “food missionaries” who literally puts his foot where his mouth is, so to speak. Together with his wife, they run the by-reservation-only Bale Dutung Restaurant in Angeles City, Pampanga, serving sumptuous traditional Pampanga spread, and more recently opened Downtown 1956 Café, at the Quadin Nepo Center in the same city, serving Tayag’s take on Filipino comfort foods. They have hosted meals for such international luminaries like Anthony Bourdain (author, TV host), Tom Parker Bowles (food editor, Esquire UK), Simon Majumbar (author Eat My Globe), Australian chef/TV host Peter Kurovita and many other local and foreign celebrities.
For more information, log on to www.themayakitchen.com or email contactus@themayakitchen.com or visit The Maya Kitchen Culinary Center every Tuesday to Saturday at 8F Liberty Building, 835A. Arnaiz Avenue (Pasay Road), Makati City or call 8921185 / 892-5011 local 108.
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